Routledge publishes history of groundbreaking BBC Voices project
Clive Upton, Susie Dent, David Crystal, Simon Elmes contribute to ongoing legacy and research applications of contemporary British dialectsMonday 20 May 2013 - For immediate releaseOxford, UK Why are we so obsessed with the English language? Launched in 2005, the BBC Voices project gathered thousands of contributions to draw a diverse map of contemporary British dialects. Eight years later, Voices continues to fascinate and its findings are informing a new generation of linguistic research. Edited by sociolinguistic experts Clive Upton and Bethan Davies, and drawing on new data from